EARTHLINGS GO HOME!AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
This is purely for fun. For ten years I was travel editor for Rogue magazine. Each issue, I had at least one article that largely financed my globe-trotting. However, the editors decided to bring out an “all science fiction” issue and, since I was currently traipsing around North Africa, how could they possibly fit my piece in? All was solved when I mailed them this. It was later reprinted in Judith Merril’s eighth The Year’s Best SF.
—Mack Reynolds
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Time was when a freewheeling bachelor could take off for Lhasa or Timbuktu and upon his return expect to have a conversation piece he could trade on for at least a few months. You know the scene; star attraction at the cocktail parties, bright young things hanging on your words, the other sin
